Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire. New Living Translation “Is it not my family God has chosen? Yes, he has made an everlasting covenant with me. His agreement is arranged and guaranteed in every detail. He will ensure my safety and success. English Standard Version “For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire? Berean Standard Bible Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire? King James Bible Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. New King James Version “Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase? New American Standard Bible “Is my house not indeed so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Properly ordered in all things, and secured; For will He not indeed make All my salvation and all my delight grow? NASB 1995 “Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? NASB 1977 “Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? Legacy Standard Bible Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? Amplified Bible “Truly is not my house so [blessed] with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured. For will He not cause to grow and prosper All my salvation and my every wish? Will He not make it grow and prosper? Christian Standard Bible Is it not true my house is with God? For he has established a permanent covenant with me, ordered and secured in every detail. Will he not bring about my whole salvation and my every desire? Holman Christian Standard Bible Is it not true my house is with God? For He has established an everlasting covenant with me, ordered and secured in every detail. Will He not bring about my whole salvation and my every desire? American Standard Version Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he maketh it not to grow. Contemporary English Version I have ruled this way, and God will never break his promise to me. God's promise is complete and unchanging; he will always help me and give me what I hope for. English Revised Version Verily my house is not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he maketh it not to grow. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Truly, God considers my house to be that way, because he has made a lasting promise to me, with every detail arranged and assured. [He promised] everything that helps me, everything that pleases me. Truly, he makes these things happen. Good News Translation And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about. International Standard Version Is not my dynasty like this with God? Has he not made an eternal covenant with me, preparing every detail of it? And he has made it secure, including my complete salvation, has he not? He has been of continual help, has he not, even with respect to all of my desires? Majority Standard Bible Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire? NET Bible My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition. New Heart English Bible For is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. Will he not bring about my whole salvation and every desire? Webster's Bible Translation Although my house is not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he maketh it not to grow. World English Bible Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor though my house [is] not so with God; So He made a perpetual covenant with me, "" Arranged in all things, and kept; For all my salvation, and all desire, "" For He has not caused [it] to spring up. Young's Literal Translation For -- not so is my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused it to spring up. Smith's Literal Translation For not thus my house with the Strong One, for he set to me an eternal covenant, prepared in all, and watched: for all my salvation and delight will he not bring forth. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleNeither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up. Catholic Public Domain Version But my house is not so great with God that he should undertake an eternal covenant with me, firm and fortified in all things. For he is the entirety of my salvation and the entirety of my will. And there is nothing of this which will not spring forth. New American Bible Is not my house firm before God? He has made an eternal covenant with me, set forth in detail and secured. Will he not bring to fruition all my salvation and my every desire? New Revised Standard Version Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIs not my house so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure; for it is he who fulfils all my desire and all my decrees. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated My household is not thus with God, and he has set for me the eternal covenant and prepared and kept everything, because all my will and all my decree is finished OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For is not my house established with God? For an everlasting covenant He hath made with me, Ordered in all things, and sure; For all my salvation, and all my desire, Will he not make it to grow? Brenton Septuagint Translation For my house is not so with the Mighty One: for he has made an everlasting covenant with me, ready, guarded at every time; for all my salvation and all my desire is, that the wicked should not flourish. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context David's Last Song…4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’ 5 Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire? 6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.… Cross References Psalm 89:3-4 You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant: / ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David. Jeremiah 33:20-21 “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time, / then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne. 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. / He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever. / I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor. ... Psalm 132:11-12 The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne. / If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.” Hebrews 8:6 Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. Acts 13:34 In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’ Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. Luke 1:32-33 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, / and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!” 2 Corinthians 1:20 For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God. Ezekiel 37:24-25 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. / They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever. Romans 1:3-4 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, / and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Psalm 89:28-29 I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast. / I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure. Hebrews 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, / equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Jeremiah 23:5-6 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. / In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness. Treasury of Scripture Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. Although 2 Samuel 7:18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 2 Samuel 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 2 Samuel 13:14,28 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her… he hath made 2 Samuel 7:14-16 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: … 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom… Psalm 89:3,28 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, … and sure 1 Samuel 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever. 1 Samuel 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 1 Kings 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. all my salvation Psalm 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. Psalm 119:81 CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. desire Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. Psalm 63:1-3 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; … Psalm 73:25,26 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee… to grow Jump to Previous Age-During Agreement Although Arranged Cause Covenant Desire Established Eternal Everlasting Grant Grow House Increase Indeed Maketh Ordered Part Prosper Right Salvation Secure Secured Stand Sure Verily WayJump to Next Age-During Agreement Although Arranged Cause Covenant Desire Established Eternal Everlasting Grant Grow House Increase Indeed Maketh Ordered Part Prosper Right Salvation Secure Secured Stand Sure Verily Way2 Samuel 23 1. David, in his last words, professes his faith in God's promises6. The different state of the wicked 8. A catalogue of David's mighty men Is not my house right with God? The phrase "my house" refers to David's dynasty or lineage. In the Hebrew context, "house" (בַּיִת, bayit) often signifies a family or dynasty, not just a physical dwelling. David is reflecting on the divine favor and righteousness bestowed upon his lineage. Historically, David's house is significant as it leads to the birth of Jesus Christ, fulfilling God's promise. The rhetorical question underscores David's confidence in God's faithfulness to his covenant, despite his own imperfections. For He has established with me an everlasting covenant ordered and secured in every part Will He not bring about my whole salvation and my every desire? Ordered in all.--As a carefully drawn legal document, providing for all contingencies and leaving no room for misconstruction. Verse 5. - Although my house, etc. The rendering of the Authorized Version is that of the ancient versions, and is to be retained. David could not but feel that his house was too stained with sin upon sin for him to be able to lay claim to have been in fact that which the theocratic king was in theory, and which David ought to have been as the representative of Christ, and himself the christ, or anointed of Israel's God. But most modern commentators take the negatives as interrogative, and, therefore, as strong assertions."For is not my house so with God? Hebrew Is notלֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no my house בֵּיתִ֖י (bê·ṯî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1004: A house right כֵ֥ן (ḵên) Adverb Strong's 3651: So -- thus with עִם־ (‘im-) Preposition Strong's 5973: With, equally with God? אֵ֑ל (’êl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty For כִּי֩ (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction He has established שָׂ֣ם (śām) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set with me לִ֗י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew an everlasting עוֹלָ֜ם (‘ō·w·lām) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always covenant, בְרִ֨ית (ḇə·rîṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 1285: A covenant ordered עֲרוּכָ֤ה (‘ă·rū·ḵāh) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular Strong's 6186: To set in a, row, arrange, put in order and secured וּשְׁמֻרָ֔ה (ū·šə·mu·rāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to in every part. בַכֹּל֙ (ḇak·kōl) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every Will He not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no bring about יַצְמִֽיחַ׃ (yaṣ·mî·aḥ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6779: To sprout, spring up my full כָל־ (ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every salvation יִשְׁעִ֥י (yiš·‘î) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 3468: Deliverance, rescue, salvation, safety, welfare and my every וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every desire? חֵ֖פֶץ (ḥê·p̄eṣ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2656: Pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter Links 2 Samuel 23:5 NIV2 Samuel 23:5 NLT 2 Samuel 23:5 ESV 2 Samuel 23:5 NASB 2 Samuel 23:5 KJV 2 Samuel 23:5 BibleApps.com 2 Samuel 23:5 Biblia Paralela 2 Samuel 23:5 Chinese Bible 2 Samuel 23:5 French Bible 2 Samuel 23:5 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Samuel 23:5 Most certainly my house is not so (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam) |
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